Indian History MCQs (50 Questions)

1. The Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in which year?
A. 1919
B. 1921
C. 1924
D. 1931
✅ Answer: B

2. Who was the first Director General of ASI who discovered Harappa?
A. Daya Ram Sahni
B. R.D. Banerjee
C. Alexander Cunningham
D. John Marshall
✅ Answer: A

3. The Great Bath is found at which site?
A. Harappa
B. Mohenjo-daro
C. Lothal
D. Kalibangan
✅ Answer: B

4. Which metal was unknown to Indus Valley people?
A. Copper
B. Gold
C. Iron
D. Silver
✅ Answer: C

5. The Rigveda is written in which language?
A. Prakrit
B. Pali
C. Sanskrit
D. Tamil
✅ Answer: C

6. Which river is called the ‘river of Rigvedic civilization’?
A. Ganga
B. Yamuna
C. Saraswati
D. Indus
✅ Answer: D

7. Who founded the Maurya Dynasty?
A. Bindusara
B. Ashoka
C. Chandragupta Maurya
D. Bimbisara
✅ Answer: C

8. Chanakya was also known as?
A. Panini
B. Patanjali
C. Kautilya
D. Varahamihira
✅ Answer: C

9. Ashoka embraced Buddhism after which war?
A. Panipat War
B. Kalinga War
C. Buxar War
D. Plassey War
✅ Answer: B

10. The national emblem of India is taken from which pillar?
A. Sarnath
B. Sanchi
C. Bharhut
D. Bodh Gaya
✅ Answer: A

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Medieval History

11. Who was the founder of the Delhi Sultanate?
A. Qutbuddin Aibak
B. Balban
C. Alauddin Khilji
D. Iltutmish
✅ Answer: A

12. Qutub Minar was completed by?
A. Aibak
B. Iltutmish
C. Balban
D. Firoz Shah Tughlaq
✅ Answer: B

13. Who introduced market control policy?
A. Balban
B. Alauddin Khilji
C. Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D. Firoz Shah
✅ Answer: B

14. The capital was shifted from Delhi to Daulatabad by?
A. Alauddin Khilji
B. Firoz Shah
C. Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D. Sikandar Lodi
✅ Answer: C

15. Who founded the Mughal Empire in India?
A. Humayun
B. Akbar
C. Babur
D. Jahangir
✅ Answer: C

16. First Battle of Panipat was fought in?
A. 1526
B. 1556
C. 1761
D. 1757
✅ Answer: A

17. Who introduced Mansabdari system?
A. Babur
B. Humayun
C. Akbar
D. Aurangzeb
✅ Answer: C

18. Din-i-Ilahi was started by?
A. Jahangir
B. Akbar
C. Shah Jahan
D. Aurangzeb
✅ Answer: B

19. Taj Mahal was built by?
A. Akbar
B. Jahangir
C. Shah Jahan
D. Aurangzeb
✅ Answer: C

20. Last powerful Mughal ruler was?
A. Shah Alam II
B. Bahadur Shah Zafar
C. Aurangzeb
D. Farrukhsiyar
✅ Answer: C

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Modern History

21. Battle of Plassey was fought in?
A. 1757
B. 1764
C. 1773
D. 1784
✅ Answer: A

22. Who was the Nawab of Bengal during Battle of Plassey?
A. Mir Jafar
B. Siraj-ud-Daulah
C. Mir Qasim
D. Shuja-ud-Daula
✅ Answer: B

23. Battle of Buxar was fought in?
A. 1757
B. 1761
C. 1764
D. 1772
✅ Answer: C

24. Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by?
A. Cornwallis
B. Wellesley
C. Dalhousie
D. Hastings
✅ Answer: B

25. Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by?
A. Wellesley
B. Cornwallis
C. Dalhousie
D. Hastings
✅ Answer: C

26. Revolt of 1857 started from?
A. Delhi
B. Kanpur
C. Meerut
D. Lucknow
✅ Answer: C

27. Who led the revolt of 1857 from Jhansi?
A. Begum Hazrat Mahal
B. Rani Lakshmibai
C. Kunwar Singh
D. Tantia Tope
✅ Answer: B

28. Viceroy during Revolt of 1857?
A. Dalhousie
B. Canning
C. Curzon
D. Ripon
✅ Answer: B

29. Indian National Congress was founded in?
A. 1885
B. 1905
C. 1915
D. 1920
✅ Answer: A

30. Founder of INC?
A. Dadabhai Naoroji
B. A.O. Hume
C. Tilak
D. Gokhale
✅ Answer: B

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Freedom Movement

31. Partition of Bengal took place in?
A. 1905
B. 1911
C. 1919
D. 1920
✅ Answer: A

32. Home Rule Movement was started by?
A. Gandhi
B. Tilak & Annie Besant
C. Nehru
D. Patel
✅ Answer: B

33. Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in?
A. 1917
B. 1918
C. 1919
D. 1920
✅ Answer: C

34. Rowlatt Act was passed in?
A. 1917
B. 1919
C. 1921
D. 1925
✅ Answer: B

35. Non-Cooperation Movement started in?
A. 1919
B. 1920
C. 1922
D. 1925
✅ Answer: B

36. Chauri Chaura incident occurred in?
A. 1920
B. 1921
C. 1922
D. 1923
✅ Answer: C

37. Simon Commission came to India in?
A. 1925
B. 1927
C. 1928
D. 1930
✅ Answer: B

38. ‘Do or Die’ slogan was given during?
A. Non-Cooperation
B. Civil Disobedience
C. Quit India
D. Swadeshi
✅ Answer: C

39. Quit India Movement started in?
A. 1940
B. 1941
C. 1942
D. 1945
✅ Answer: C

40. Cabinet Mission came to India in?
A. 1942
B. 1945
C. 1946
D. 1947
✅ Answer: C

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Important Personalities & Facts

41. Father of Indian Renaissance?
A. Vivekananda
B. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C. Dayanand Saraswati
D. Tilak
✅ Answer: B

42. ‘Swaraj is my birthright’ was said by?
A. Gandhi
B. Tilak
C. Bose
D. Nehru
✅ Answer: B

43. First Governor-General of India?
A. Cornwallis
B. Warren Hastings
C. Canning
D. Dalhousie
✅ Answer: B

44. First Indian Governor-General?
A. Rajagopalachari
B. Nehru
C. Patel
D. Ambedkar
✅ Answer: A

45. Who wrote ‘Discovery of India’?
A. Gandhi
B. Nehru
C. Tagore
D. Bose
✅ Answer: B

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Culture & Administration

46. Ajanta paintings belong to which religion?
A. Hinduism
B. Jainism
C. Buddhism
D. Islam
✅ Answer: C

47. Sanchi Stupa was built by?
A. Kanishka
B. Ashoka
C. Harsha
D. Chandragupta
✅ Answer: B

48. First newspaper in India?
A. Kesari
B. Amrita Bazar Patrika
C. Bengal Gazette
D. Hindu
✅ Answer: C

49. Vernacular Press Act was passed in?
A. 1857
B. 1878
C. 1885
D. 1905
✅ Answer: B

50. Who abolished Sati system?
A. Dalhousie
B. Bentinck
C. Cornwallis
D. Curzon
✅ Answer: B